NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 May 1908, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

.{By Glencoe.]' . The connections of Taiiriki must' hare had a royal win' ovqr tho. Takapima. meeting, as they, booked their horse 'on'' the tlireo occasion's- on which" it won. Cannie Chiel, ..who won tho , Stewards' Handicap at Oamaru on Saturdayis now it'en years old. Last season he waß;not seen 6ri the 'racing track,. as he .was doing stud duty in 'thio district, but,{.for the seven'", p'revibus' seasons :hd, had,, been' racing constantly, and won races cach year. ,Tho Soult gelding Sol, winner of . the Takapuna Steeplechase, was handicapped at exactly tho same weight (list, ,121b.) in tho Great - Northern Steeplechase as he carried over tho Takapuna course yesterday, but for his win ho incurs a 71b. penalty, which will bring his weight up to 121b. 61b. As he is apparently in his best form again he 'will' have to bo reckoned with. - Last season ho only, started once, when, with list. 131b., ho was 1 unplaced in the' Grand National Stoeplochase won by Pliaetontis. Tho season before that his record was an excellent one, for out of thirteen starts he was, ten .times : first, onco second, and only twice unplaced. Daisy Paulha3 proved a very cheap purchase for Mr; James Bull, for. the two stakes 1 won by the St. Puul, maro for .her,now owner just about equal the price given for; her, and next season she will probably show considerable improvement. Horses trained ,by C. Pritchard, of'tho Hutt, won two races at tho Wanganui mooting. .'Nono of ,tho . IVentham horses got nearer. ... | • H. ; Hickey is very successful as a trainer of jumpers.' He commenced the" present season uy winning tho Grand-National with Eclair, and lio lias won numerous'htirdlo races since with Black Reynard, Kaipotipoti, and Faro. ' With the latter pair ho won the two. steeplechases, qt • Wanganui yesterday, and Kaipetipetr was .ruunpr-up to Tilson in the big event,on Saturday.' Fie'ld- GuilJ ,' wlio won - a■' at the . Oamarii nioeting, is a four-year-old colt by Hotchkiss—Gannet. Ho was rather a disappointment last season, for thdugh started on; more than ' a dozen occasions he only; caught th& judge's eye ohdo. . This soAsou ho has. done,a littlo better. -J ( ' It is a triflo difficult to. follow, the form of the Torpedo gelding Waipuybut it is possible tbQ.;longe>r jqurney_ '.;in.. .tho Century Hurdles would' suit him' bettef . yeisterday. The company was much the same as that he met'in the Hack Hurdles on 1 the first day, , with the exception of Mahoc and; Prospector, and tho latter woidd carry a penalty for bis win in the May Hurdles. Accommodation has boon booked for Waipu at Ellcrslie, and as'.the distance ';in. the Great Northern Hurdles is two miles and a half he .may run' ! fairly .well.

Cachuca, whb won the fiauraki Hurdles at the'Takapuna mooting-on Saturday,, was to have 'been; shipped to Sydney, yesterday. Aorangi, Moscow, and Inaha arrived at Ellerslio (in Saturday. A large' number of horses will' also bo sont. to Ellerslio from AVanganui to-day.*